$5,000 in support of the costs associated with hosting the traveling exhibition Beauford Delaney: The Color Yellow, organized by guest-curator Richard J. Powell and the High Museum of Art and overseen by Fogg curator Harry Cooper. Delaney was born in Tennessee and trained as an artist in Boston during the 1920s. He painted portraits and urban scenes primarily in New York during the later years of the Harlem Renaissance, and beginning in the early 1960s painted abstractions in Paris where he resided for the rest of his life.

$20,000 toward an exhibition on the painter together with a catalogue and related programs, organized by museum curator Patricia S. Canterbury. Delaney was born in Tennessee and trained as an artist in Boston during the 1920s. He painted portraits and urban scenes primarily in New York during the later years of the Harlem Renaissance, and beginning in the early 1960s painted abstractions in Paris where he resided for the rest of his life.

$10,000 to acquire the 1964 painting Self-Portrait for the museum’s permanent collection. Delaney was born in Tennessee and trained as an artist in Boston during the 1920s. He painted portraits and urban scenes primarily in New York during the later years of the Harlem Renaissance, and beginning in the early 1960s painted abstractions in Paris where he resided for the rest of his life.

$20,000 toward the acquisition of the 1945 painting Portrait of James Baldwin. Delaney was born in Tennessee and trained as an artist in Boston during the 1920s. He painted portraits and urban scenes primarily in New York during the waning years of the Harlem Renaissance, and beginning in the early 1960s painted abstractions in Paris where he lived the rest of his life.